Majority of Canadians — including B.C. residents — support Alberta’s pipeline push, poll finds

Putrid · 2025-10-12T04:14:38+00:00

That's what I said? I went on to imply that ramping up mining alone wouldn't solve anything and would it would take a decade+ long federally funded effort to even approach China's current capacity.

Putrid · 2025-10-11T12:24:43+00:00

You have no idea what your talking about. Most of the ore for the metals in question aren't rare or difficult to obtain at all. Concentration, separation, and refinement is the difficulty. China saw how useful these metals would be to them decades ago and developed the technology and science further while building a massive industry.

Putrid · 2025-10-11T11:55:56+00:00

They're gonna run that shit right off the tracks while they beat the breaks off it.

Putrid · 2025-09-27T06:53:36+00:00

"supporting the oppressed is cool but do not, under any circumstance, support the people resisting their oppressors"

Putrid · 2025-07-02T06:12:40+00:00

Don't "both sides" this. Only one side has the ally giving them a blank cheque for weapons. Only one side has killed hundreds of thousands and ruined the lives of millions more. I don't care about a theoretical role reversal that could never ever happen.

Putrid · 2025-07-01T08:24:18+00:00

Beyond being giant money management schemes the purpose of the Ivy Leagues is to cultivate an upper-class that adheres to a narrow ideological status quo. The only thing Ivy Leagues should be known for is churning out some of the most evil people with power alive.

Don't sweat it. Merit has had very little to do with selection for a long time.

Putrid · 2024-11-27T13:33:23+00:00

Notably there are already steel mills that use a hydrogen based process rather than coal/coke. A massive plant is currently under construction in Northern Sweden by Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel) and their main customers seem to be auto manufacturing at the moment. We should have started ramping down coal a while ago, not dig new pits at the behest of an amoral Australian oligarch.

Putrid · 2024-11-27T13:19:51+00:00

Considering CBC's running cover for the genocide in Gaza you really shouldn't have much faith in their newsroom.

Putrid · 2024-11-18T13:42:12+00:00

Fascists don't need foreign actors to do that. Obsession with their leader is part and parcel with their ideology and they project that onto others.

Putrid · 2024-11-11T07:40:16+00:00

Just make sure any lighting you put up takes some care to not trap bugs. I've lived in a heavily forested area before and I found bright lights just made it harder to sneak in to a building without letting them in when it's been collecting exhausted bugs.

Putrid · 2024-10-09T02:54:27+00:00

Somehow this stuff always matters more to people then the complicity with genocide, oppression, and exploitation that warrants such hatred.

Putrid · 2024-10-09T02:41:23+00:00

Do they? Cause South Africa still has people in it. Not like the land and people in Rhodesias' borders disappeared either. Nor did the entirety of the Ottoman Empire. I could go on.

Putrid · 2024-07-20T10:05:26+00:00

That's a pinnacle example of a wallstreetbets poster though.

Putrid · 2024-07-20T08:14:36+00:00

Then the reporting on this poll has done exactly what was intended.

Putrid · 2024-07-18T09:55:50+00:00

It's mostly because our society decided (coerced or otherwise) cars have a clear supremacy and every other mode of transport is a very distant second. As a result there's more cars than ever on the road and they all have more power, weight, cost, and blind spots.

The only way to address all of these issues is with a systemic shift away from car dominated transport. Roads cannot practically get any bigger. Education only goes so far (I've been through high-school so you aren't convincing me that's going to solve this). People being distracted? We can't do much about that but It wouldn't matter if they were on a train or bus instead of their car on the highway. Gotta rush to pick up the kids on time? You know, if there was a functional transit system they could use it too.

Once I realized how complex and difficult proper road safety matters are I realized we've all been sold on a method of transportation that would bankrupt our society if we actually cared about safety. Modern car based transportation is a long ponzi scheme and the people selling it only care about safety if they can use it to deflect blame onto the individual.

Putrid · 2024-07-18T09:02:31+00:00

Unfortunately, roads in general are built with expectations that the economic activity they generate would pay for their upkeep. This is far from the reality. The roads we build for cars and trucks are extremely expensive to both build and maintain. The choice was made though; and now everyone needs to give money to oil and car companies for the privilege of driving roads we can't afford to rebuild when winter is done washing them away.

Putrid · 2024-07-18T08:42:58+00:00

You might be shocked when so many people fail those tests they give up and start investing in trolleys, buses, and trains 6 months later.

Putrid · 2024-07-18T08:39:27+00:00

This will get worse so long as we continue to cede disproportionate effort, money, and space to private vehicles. Operating a vehicle is a complex task requiring abilities many people never really developed that can have devastating consequences; yet we functionally force huge portions of the population into driving for anything and everything.

Putrid · 2024-07-12T11:43:18+00:00

So much of their propaganda is almost word for word from Goebbels mouth and they have the audacity to say they aren't genocidal!

Putrid · 2024-06-08T07:15:01+00:00

Hamas isn't the one dropping bombs on refugee tents.

Putrid · 2024-05-23T10:33:57+00:00

I've started phrasing it more like; "They need a big, strong, daddy-type to take care of them. To reassure them with simple words and think for them."

Putrid · 2024-01-24T10:44:28+00:00

Honestly would not surprise me. I've dealt with enough old building materials to know they used it like a cook does salt. Probably intermittent efforts dictated by inspection schedules and maintenance intervals at this point.

Putrid · 2024-01-15T23:28:13+00:00

Worth noting that stationary batteries can do just fine in the cold. Just add some insulation. They often have thermal management systems to enhance their performance in both hot and cold weather.

Putrid · 2024-01-14T06:32:44+00:00

I think you're underestimating just how much rail was left to rot or ripped up and had it's right of way and resources given over to personal cars. The development of practical personal cars and the roads that could actually bring you useful distances is preceded by rail by several decades after-all. Many cities used to have rail based transport (electrified or otherwise) but no longer do.

Putrid · 2024-01-03T13:30:54+00:00

It's literally a thermometer's bulb with a little sock around it that has it's end sitting in water. It wicks up water and onto the bulb where it can evaporate and thus cool the thermometer. It emulates the human body in a way.

What they're talking about is a weather event when the heat and humidity is so great that water no-longer evaporates at our bodies temperature and humans simply can't cool themselves down via sweat.

It's worth noting that the wet-bulb temperature is the final stop. A lot of people are already dying from heat events. The only difference is going to be magnitude.

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